After federal Environment Minister Peter Kent announced Monday that Canada would be withdrawing from the Kyoto Protocol on carbon emissions, the head of the UN agency that administers the protocol said she would not permit Ottawa to do so. Christiana Figueres, the Costa Rican diplomat and bureaucrat who is executive secretary of the United Nations […]

UN climate change talks in Durban, South Africa, agreed a package of measures that would eventually force all the world’s polluters to take legally binding action to slow the pace of global changing. Here are the details:

Climate negotiators agreed a pact on Sunday that would for the first time force all the biggest polluters to take action on greenhouse gas emissions, but critics said the action plan was not aggressive enough to slow the pace of global warming

The foundering this week of not one but two experiments in megalomanic government pretension — the Kyoto Protocol and the European superstate — should provide cause for reflection about the limits of government. Instead, what we are seeing is desperate attempts to paper over the yawning policy cracks. Both the Durban Kyoto meeting and the […]